ROC Resident Insights and Learnings
Mobile homes are not mobile.
Lois Parris of Lakes Region MHP Cooperative says there's nothing mobile about her home: "It's like any other home that you take pride in."
Running a $2.1-million business.
A board member of her manufactured-home cooperative, Lois Parris of Lakes Region MHP Cooperative helps run a $2.1-million business.
What happens when you don't own your own community.
The owner of a manufactured-home park in Hooksett, N.H., closed the park and evicted the residents, some of whom were elders and had nowhere else to go.
ROC Residents go to bootcamp.
Dave Grout of Viewpoint Cooperative describes the "boot camp" that the NH Community Loan Fund's ROC-NH program holds for the board members and leaders of newly converted manufactured-home cooperatives.
Life in a Resident-owned community is different.
Members of New Hampshire's manufactured-home cooperatives describe the benefits of resident ownership of their communities.